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What should I do if the dog has canine distemper (distemper)?

Date: 2025-01-21

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What should I do if the dog has canine distemper (distemper)?
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How to treat dogs with canine distemper:

1. Send to the doctor in time, the sooner the better, do not try to treat yourself.

2. In the early stage of dog distemper, the dog will have body heat, fever, and loss of appetite. At this time, the dog should be given more water. The water can detoxify and cool down at the same time.

3. After the condition improves, you must follow the doctor's advice to take medicine, and at the same time, you must supplement the nutrition for the dog to improve immunity, so that the dog will recover quickly.

4. After the dog recovers, take the dog to vaccinate in time, and then boost the immunization once a year.

Canine Distemper Symptoms:

1. The dog loses appetite or does not eat at all, and the spirit is listless. The body temperature changes in a biphasic heat type, that is, the body temperature first rises to 39-41 degrees, lasts for 1-3 days, and then gradually subsides, close to normal temperature, after a few days Elevation of body temperature occurs again, and severe cases can lead to death.

2. Respiratory system type (pneumonia type) manifests as rhinitis and conjunctivitis, and the dog's eyes and nose have serous or mucopurulent secretions. If ophthalmic neuritis is caused, it can lead to blindness. The virus invades the lungs and causes interstitial pneumonia, and secondary bacterial infection can cause bronchial pneumonia. Clinically, it presents as cough and dyspnea.

3. Gastrointestinal type manifests as vomiting and diarrhea. Sick dogs have severe diarrhea and occasionally discharge bloody stools.

4. Neurotype, canine distemper virus can infect any part of the central nervous system. Clinically, neurological symptoms may appear simultaneously with other systemic symptoms, and may also appear later, mainly manifested as general convulsions, spasms of masticatory muscles, circling, and abnormal behavior. When the midbrain, cerebellum, and vestibule are affected, ataxia and abnormal posture are manifested. Spinal infection manifests as abnormal posture, abnormal spinal reflexes, and paralysis.

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